Newfag here, why is Stirner such a meme on /lit/?
Stirner is possibly the only philosopher who isn't mentally retarded.
spooks
>>9070758
>mentally retarded
>vs not mentally retarded
S P O O K
becoz u didnt read him b4 posts
>most important is the spook, which is a very easily memeable idea that fits perfectly into the "no you" contrarianism of 4chan, i.e. It's a fun way to say someone's wrong or dumb or to bait someone by calling their personally cherished belief a spook. Also spooky was already a meme and it kind of latched onto that
>simplistic philosophy, or more accurately a philosophy that can be misconstrued as simplistic by morons (stirnerfags). It's hard to meme the ideas of a Heidegger or a Hegel because of how complex they are, but even an idiot can deduce "dude just do whatever you want lmao" from Stirner's writing (even if that isn't really what he's saying)
>we know very little about him, so he is a mysterious figure
>importantly, his philosophy, or at least the memed down version of it, fits like a glove onto 4chan's spirit of freedom and being generally so freedom loving to the point of being intentionally edgy to celebrate that freedom. The bastardized version of stirner's philosophy is so transgressively freedom loving and in your face about ones freedom that a group of people known for calling people faggots as a matter of course just because they can was bound to feel an attachment to him and his philosophy
>>9070999
nice trips
>>9070758
*tips fedora*